Lettuce Nudibranch

[warlockgp]

My friend and i both got lettuce nudibranches and they both laid eggs. Mine haven't hatch yet but my nudiebranch laid another spiral set of eggs.

Are the offsprings easy to care for? Should i go throught the hassle of separating them or are they doomed anyways?

 

[lebowski]

I just got one of these as well.. Very beautiful and interesting creatures.. If you know the biology behind them, they are even more interesting...

I'd not worry about the eggs.. I don't think anything will bother eating the eggs.. Nudibranches let off a unfavorable toxic to defend themselves from any predators.. Although I'm not sure, the eggs should be protected...

If not, don't bother... If they do hatch, I don' think there would be enough food to sustain them for long..

Just let them be is my vote.

 

[Rothie]

Actually,if you do a search on this forum,there have been a couple of people having success raising the offspring.I think one person has 3 generations in his tank.

 

[warlockgp]

Actually,if you do a search on this forum,there have been a couple of people having success raising the offspring.I think one person has 3 generations in his tank.

What should i search for? i tried offspring and fry with no luck.............

 

[Rothie]

Just search on "lettuce" for the last 6 months .It will pull up all the threads with lettuce in them.

 

[ddawson]

I haven't done anything special and I've have 10 1/4 size LN's. It's been about 1.5 months and they start off really small.

They like the light and will stay high on the walls to get to it.

 

[Paul B]

I have a few generations of them and they are still reproducing. I have over 100 of them. Go to this site and under search type in "lettuce Slug" There is a lot of information there (I also submitter something)
http://www.seaslugforum.net/message.cfm?id=new